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Credit: The Associated Press

This undated booking photo released by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office shows Joseph O’Donnell, being held in Boston on larceny charges. On Thursday, July 17, 2014, investigators found 12 sets of human remains at a facility rented in O’Donnell’s name in Weymouth. Investigators then found cremated remains of more than 40 others at a Somerville storage facility, also rented in O’Donnell’s name. O’Donnell’s funeral director’s license lapsed in 2008. (AP Photo/Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office)

Pathologists have successfully identified 11 of 12 bodies recovered from a Weymouth self-storage unit last month using X-rays, medical and dental records, but have determined “most” of the 40-plus cremated remains authorities also found piling up in a storage unit in Somerville date back decades, said Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley.

Determining who those individuals are for the peace of mind of their families “is expected to be a time-intensive project,” said Wark, adding the age of the cremains may make it impossible to include them in any future criminal charges against accused unlicensed funeral director Joseph V. O’Donnell.

O’Donnell, 55, currently charged with larceny for allegedly stealing $12,000 from an elderly couple’s pre-paid funeral plan at the O’Donnell and Mulry Funeral Home on Neponset Avenue, remains held on $10,000 cash bail. He is due back in Dorchester District Court Aug. 29 for a pretrial hearing.

Wark said the families of the 11 bodies identified “have all been notified. One body remains unidentified.”